{"id":8793,"date":"2015-08-12T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2015-08-12T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:33:33","slug":"got-to-darts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8793","title":{"rendered":"Got to Darts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ner ner-nerr-ner-ner ner-na-ner-ner-nerr-errr-er-errr-er-er OI! OI! OI!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Sky are finally jumping on the darts gameshow revolution with <strong>One Hundred and Eighty<\/strong>, hosted by the dream pairing of Davina McCall and Freddie Flintoff, <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.sky.com\/media-centre\/news-page\/2015\/sky-1-hits-%E2%80%98one-hundred-and-eighty%E2%80%99-in-new-darts-game-show-with-davina-mccall-and-freddie-flintoff\">promising both the drama of a sporting event and the excitement of a gameshow<\/a> (although apparently not the drama of a gameshow and the excitement of a sporting event) where amateur players will play with professionals to win a cash prize. Airs September, Applause Store were doing tickets but there&#8217;s no mention on the site now.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile if you want to become a contestant on bird-of-paradise simulator <strong>Pick Me!<\/strong> then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/beontv\/shows\/pickme\">now&#8217;s your chance!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pickme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8794\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=8794\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pickme.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"586,827\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pickme\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pickme.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pickme.jpg\" alt=\"pickme\" width=\"449\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pickme.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pickme-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This of course very much of interest as it&#8217;s the first commission of\u00a0most-interesting-man-in-daytime Glenn Hugill&#8217;s new production label Possessed (which is also where FOTB Paul B works). I sort of get the show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/presscentre\/press-releases\/possessed-secures-first-commission-pick-me\">although from the press release<\/a> I haven&#8217;t quite worked out what&#8217;s in for the players picked from the audience &#8211; the selected panellist wins a grand and that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve worked out. I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t be massively disappointing anyway. It had better not.<\/p>\n<p>In other news you&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/latestnews\/2015\/the-getaway-car\">probably heard by now that Dermot O&#8217; Leary&#8217;s hosting <strong>The Getaway Car<\/strong><\/a> where you can race against The Stig for a cash prize (I suspect this wasn&#8217;t a feature before the old Top Gear crew left). This feels like it&#8217;s been knocking about for bloody ages, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/showsandtours\/takepart\/getaway_car\">you can still apply to be a contestant if you want<\/a>. The last motoring gameshow that promised hi-octane thrills was probably <strong>Crash Course<\/strong> in the States, 2009, which was surprisingly a bit boring and got cancelled after three episodes, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atKmPMrgN1Q\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you can go and see the pilot of <strong>Home Win<\/strong> with Vernon Kay on 1st September at Wembley. Tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostintv.com\/tv-show?id=664\">Lost in TV<\/a>. I can&#8217;t go, but feel free to tell us what you think if you do. It&#8217;s a 12 Yard show so it probably won&#8217;t be that exciting but basically workmanlike etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ner ner-nerr-ner-ner ner-na-ner-ner-nerr-errr-er-errr-er-er OI! OI! OI! That&#8217;s right, Sky are finally jumping on the darts gameshow revolution with One Hundred and Eighty, hosted by the dream pairing of Davina McCall and Freddie Flintoff, promising both the drama of a sporting event and the excitement of a gameshow (although apparently not the drama of a gameshow\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8793\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2hP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}